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More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
...division of Palestine and the birth of Israel flooded Jordan with hard-mouthed urban refugees who knew nothing of desert chivalry and saw in Glubb Pasha only a treasonous foreigner who had declined to order his troops to charge straight across Israel. By last fall, when Britain tried to rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill...
Died. Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, eightyish, wily Pasha of Marrakech; of cancer; in Marrakech, Morocco. Berber Chieftain El Glaoui was named Pasha in 1908 for helping depose his first Sultan, rode to immense wealth (estimated at $50 million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate...
...desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha-known affectionately by his Bedouin warriors as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw), in honor of a bullet wound incurred in World War I fighting-quoted the Arab classics, read the lesson Sundays at the Anglican chapel in Amman, and used Britain's $24 million-a-year subsidy...
...party, the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, whose leaders are united in hostility but undecided which prophet to follow, Marx or Mohammed. As first Premier, the Sultan chose a man identified with no party, but admired by most nationalists. He is Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 48, onetime Pasha of Sefrou, who served as Mohammed V's representative in Paris during the Sultan's exile. Si Bekkai is a retired lieutenant colonel of French cavalry, lost his right leg in the Ardennes Forest during World War II. The Sultan, with Si Bekkai's help, hopes...